"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".
Feminist movement is pro-family.
More Bell hooks quotes
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"In retrospect, it is evident that highlighting abortion rather than reproductive rights as a whole reflected the class biases of the women who were at...
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"No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the patriarchal masculinity they found so problematic....
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